About my switch to Vista
Published on 17 Jan 2008 at 1:10 pm.
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As I expected, Apple replaced my iMac with a new model. I’ll have a review up later but let me just say this much now — the glass is a mirror. It is horrible and at the same time beautiful. When not enjoying gorgeous reflections of myself, I experience deep black… sharp contrast… in a word it is “stunning” or “distracting.”
Now on to Vista. You know, the OS I threatened to switch to. I can sum it up pretty quickly as well.
- Best version of Windows ever!
- Worst operating system ever!
I can hear you now; asking “what about Linux?” I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but, Linux is an absolute joke. Even the best end-user distribution (that’s Ubuntu) is a pile of mis-matched code. And the best developer-centric distribution (Slackware) may very well require a computer science degree.
All told, I’d much rather have FreeBSD.
Oh, right, I was talking about Vista. Let me tell you an old joke I once heard.
The US and Russia (I’m sure at the time I was told this joke it was the CCCP) have a car race. The US car wins, barely. The next day in the papers the headlines are… in the US: “US wins race, Russia finishes last.” and in Russia it’s “Russia comes in second. US finishes next to last.”
Where was I? Vista? OK. Vista is the Russian car. I’d love to just go on with the car analogy, but it would become far too esoteric. All told, Vista is a great OS but it’s not Leopard. I just thought of a great way to describe Vista… someone hits me in the knee with a bat and gives me a really shiny hat. Hey, the hat is nice, but now I can barely walk.
In the end my decision was easy. Learn Vista or get stuff done with Leopard.
